Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 76

"O, no, mother!" cried the boys. "

Who acts: mother · What happens: cry · To what, where: boys

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	9 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 mother	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	mother	the boys					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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